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I guess if I ever want to see anything older than trucks from the early-mid ninties I will have to move up to your parts of the world.Down here in Philly I can probley count on both hands how many old DM,B models trucks are still around.I'm not talking about trucks that are still being used,but trucks that are parked in someone yard. It's may be for the best because if they were around I would most likely be going after them.I know of just one B81 that is sitting in a fellow yard,that is just rusting away to junk.I talked with the owner this past summer and he is not about to sell it.He told me that he was going to restore it.That will happen when pigs learn to fly.I guess I will have to keep looking.

daveigou,you bring up a good point.You say that we can still pull trailers,I was always told that once you put antique tags on your tractor you could not pull trailers anymore.I have the antique tags on my 79 R-model but I still pull trailers anyways.I just keep my toes cross when I get stop.My insurance company is ok with pulling trailers as long as it not for work,play only.Mike Durkin

I brought a antique caterpillar tractor from a fellow up in MA. a few years back that had a B81 tandam dump restored in his garage.His name was Louis Iaruzzi.He wasn't to far from Boston.

That is a nice r-model,here's another nice one.It a 79 model with only 72,000 orignal miles.Not as much chrome but it just the way we brought 45 Macks that year just for WORK.

They would cut the balls off your bulldog if they caught you driving with a camcorder in your hand down here in Philly.Hell they fine you a $100 if you even have a cell phone in your hand.I saw one jackass get pulled over for talking on the phone and when the officer walk up to the car she just kept right on talking.

Welcome,I'm from Philly,where are you from?MikeDurkin

I sent you a PM.Thanks Mike Durkin

Paul,try talking to Matt Phall.He has a 1958 B873SX that was once one of our trucks.It is a heavy spec with a winch on it.We brought it new in 58.The only problem is over the years we had replaced the cab with one that was concaved in the back.I have the sister truck to that one,my is a 1964 model of the same spec.Good Luck Mike Durkin

I would be interested in the radiator shell if you still have it.I would be comming down from Phila.PA so if anyone north of here wants some parts I'ld could bring them up to philly for you.Thanks Mike Durkin

I posted in parts wanted that I am in need of 2 b model radiator shells.I am looking to build myself a patio bench out of them.My wife says I spend to much time in my garage so I throught i'ld spuce up the back yard.Thanks Mike Durkin

I am looking for 2 used radiator shells from B models Mack.Would like to try and made some sort of a work bench.It would be best if they were painted and not chrome.Thanks MIke Durkin

JTF,just my 2cents worth about the seller.I have brought many antique Caterpillar tractors to restore over the years,and beleive me when I say that some of those owners were just as bad as the one your are dealing with.They tell me that it was a running working tractor back when.Sometime before I was throught about.But yet they still think in therir heads it's still that.Most times it is just better to walk away and forget about it.I love it when they say I don't have to sell it,well then why are you trying to sell it in the first place.Good luck in your endeavors.Are you anywhere near Great Adventure,I restored a 1956 Ford F600 that I brought in from Montana and I would get parts from a guy up there.Now that guy I dealt with was up front about the truck.I saw the truck when me and my wife and some friends were out there.I did the whole deal over the phone and the seller told me just what the truck was.The only thing he didn't tell me was that the exhaust was bad,no problem quick trip to NAPA and problem fixed.

Th would be for the tow pin in the front bumper.

I was told today by the last old timer that is left,that they did this due to the cab floor rusting out and the cab wouldn't stop leaning forward.I am going to take a look at how bad the floor is.Are floor panel still to be had or do you make your own.

Here are the two pictures of my cab mounts on my B87

If I had to make a guess I'ld say that was one of our old B models.My father brought 6 of them.That one was a dump first then we made it into a tractor,then we put it back to a dump and that the way it was when we sold it.

Thanks Guys for the info,will check out on Monday.Can anyone post a picture of the left side front mount.Mine has been worked on over the years.Would like to put back to orignal.Thanks MIke D

Are the mounts for a B87 the same as a B61 and so forth.Next are they still able to be had new.Does anyone have a picture or drawing of what the mounts look like.My B87 on the right side had some repairs done to the cab and mounts.Would like to put back to what it was.Will post a picture of what it looks like on Sunday.

I did a google search of them and that how I found about their problem.Seems like they are working way to cheap like everyone else.Last year they did about 550 million in business and walk away with less then 1.5 percent profit.That is just the reason me and my brothers walk away from it all back in 2007.We didn't owe anyone any money all the equipment was paid for so we said that it.

Farmer52,I hear that NES&L is in alittle $ problem.Where is there bone yard.We beat them out on a section of the I99 jobs back in the nineties.I know they wern't very happy to lose out on that job that was right in their backyard,since we travel all the way from Philly.They are one fine outfit to compeat against.

Yes they were 5 speeds,they ran like a rape ape top speed was mid 70's.But they would shit the bed with either weight on or a hill climb.The r models had a 5 speed with a low holed, like i said they were built for thye weight.After we didn't need them anymore we kept one around for a backup to the lowboy tractors.I f you didn't have much of a hill to climb they were good to about 130,000lbs that was even pushing the limit.My father was great for pushing the limits of the Macks.The B87's were loaded with100 tons or more.I can remember we moved our BE 61-B and the BE 88B draglines with 100' of boom in them with all of the counterweights on right down I95,now we did that at 3 in the morning.We even walked the one dragline right down the shoulder of the highway in front of the Phila International Airport,for about 2 miles, to get to the next job.After the B87's were put off of daily duty they were replaced with a couple of DM800's.The last one was a 1985 model.I pulled a load out of the railyard in Wilkes-Barre Pathat the machine weighed105 tons.The contractor that had the job to move it was afried his all chomed up Peterbiult weren't up to the job,so he asked us to move it for him.The DM had no prblem at all.Just had to add some more air in the drive wheels they went just about flat when I lifted the trailer up.They were the good all days,no permits just a large set of balls and a truck up to the task.

Umodelnut,the u-models we had were ones that Ryder Trucking ordered for there truck leasing,but didn't need them.The Mack dealer we dealt with new my father wanted some tractors like yesterday so he offered them to us.They were only your typical road tractor wasn't worth a shit offroad or over loaded.We had to keep them to the 80,000lbs range or the rears would let loose.Now the R-models that we ordered were good to about 120,000lbs.I think I took one of the heaviest loads across the Walt Whitman bridge at 113,500lbs.On Saturday when the NJ State Troopers weren't out that when we would run the r models at least 90,000-100,000lbs.It was great.We could move more material on Saturday in 10 hours than we would in 15-18 hours during the week.

Here are acouple of pic of the B87 and the Rmodel.The r model just turned over 72,000 miles,we have owned it sence new.We brought 45 Mack in 1979.20 being r models,10 umodels,15 DM600 triaxle dumps.This is all that remains.The last few we had went to north Jersey and then they went for a boat ride I do beleive.

I will look for some shots.

I'll take my mancave over the castle anyday.I patched the roof with some liner we had left over from a landfill cell job we did afew years back.That a 1929 Caterpillar 15 Motorpatrol,1956 Ford f600,1979 Mack R600,2010 Mustang supercharged,you can't see it but the 1964 Mack B873SX is behind the R model.There is also a 1929 Cat 10 behind the 15MP.Only problem I have is that we might have the property sold a fellow came out of the blue and wanted to know if it was for sale.,will have to look for a new mancave.